Allied Victories
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- The big three: ___, ___,& ____ met ay Yalta to decide Fate of Europe... Agreed to the forming of the ____ ____ to keep peace in World after war.
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Roosevelt, Hitler, & Stalin
U.N - At Tehran, Iran Roosevelt & Churchill decided Allies would invade ____ in NW France. Stalin promised to begin an offensive at same time.
- Normandy
- D-DAY: Under ____ ____, Allies hit the beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944.
- General Eisenhower
- (Operation Overlord: ____ soldiers, ____ ships, ____ planes.
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5,000
11,000 - Despite heavy German resistance Allies claim victory. WIth a foothold in EUrope, they could launch attack on ____.
- Berlin
- By July 1944, Gen. ____ ____ tanks were racing across France, French ___ ___ __ ____ reoccupied Paris.
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Gen George Patton's
Gen. CHARLES DE gAULLE - Victory Over Germany: 1. Soviets marched towards ____; retook Poland , Romania (nest is suspicious of Stalis aims.)
- Berlin
- 2. Allies bombed ____ itself. Hitler refuses to surrender.
- Germany
- 3. Massive battle of the Bulge won by Allies who stormed across the ___ ____.
- Rhine RIver
- 4. SOviets fought way into Berlin and on May 7, 1945, Germans ____.
- Surrendered
- Hitler had commited ____ in his bunker.
- Suicide
- Mussolini was ____ by Italian resistance fighters. (May 8-VE Day)
- Shot
- When is VE day?
- May 8
- Victory Over Japan: Early 1945-Victory against Japan was inevitable but Japanese fought on (Ini Jima & ____)
- Okinawa
- jULY 26, 1945-u.s Demands complete surrender or use secret weapon-____ ____ ____.
- The Atomic Bomb
- FDR had died. ____ ___ was President who decided...
- Harry Truman
- Aug 6, 1946-bomb dropped on ____.
- Hiroshima
- Aug 14, 1945-Japanese ____.
- Surrenders
- Aug 15-VJ day) 2nd bomb dropped on ____.
- Nagasaki
- Effects of War: ____million casualties.
- 55
- _ million Jews dead in Holocaust.
- 6
- ____ movement for Jewish homeland in Middle East (Israel given to Jews by Britain)
- Zionist
- _ million homeless
- 12
- Much of Europe lay in ____.
- Ruins
- At ____;Nazi leaders put on trial for "Crimes against humanity".
- Nuremburg
- U.S & Soviet Union emerge as the world's two ____.
- Superpowers
- Stalin drops the "____ ____" over Eastern Europe; Germany divided into free western Europe & Communist-controlled East.
- Iron Curtain